jayboard
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| How good is Benchmark DAC1 comparing to...... Dgclark, Hang on to your suspicious attitude. It will do you well in the long run. In this specific case, I think you're on the wrong track. There are people here who are able and willing to do things I wouldn't consider -- like buy a piece just b... | |
| What about a product can irritate you? Unhinging the CD case is a novel approach, but is removing the sticky tape that big of a deal? I admit I can't do it quickly without the aid of a blade, so I keep a pen knife handy. If you try to remove the tape lengthwise along the edge of the ca... | |
| Question for Quad 99 CD-P owners Interesting question, but I don't think so. You can make exactly one selection of a digital input, so that input must feed the D-to-A section and the single, optical digital out, as well. There isn't a way to set up the kind of loop you're talking... | |
| Isolation For Rega P3 I use a Planar 3 on an old-style Sound Organization floor rack. I did use a sandbox type platform on the rack for a while, and it did some good. I tried out a Neuance platform and liked that a lot, so I've stuck with that. Never tried a maple base... | |
| Audioquest cables: replace the DBS Battery pack. Kid, How about Synergistic Research Alpha Sterling Active? Yes, Bundy, it comes with its own power cord. I tried the interconnect but didn't get around to trying it active even though I had the component, because I knew I wasn't going to spend the... | |
| How good is Benchmark DAC1 comparing to...... The saving grace of these debates is that while the thread rages on, most of us privately and quietly make up our minds concerning whose opinions are actually useful (whether we agree with them or not). Some members have, over a long period of tim... | |
| "New Stock" EH EL34 Fat Boy and TungSol 6550 Thanks, Zinfan, that's helpful. Reading your descriptions of the Svets and EH's, I think we hear the same relative differences between the two but just have different subjective preferences (besides having different equipment; my tubes are in a Va... | |
| "New Stock" EH EL34 Fat Boy and TungSol 6550 Zinfan, when you're up and around and your new tubes are broken in, can you offer more description of the EH FatBoys compared to EH EL34 "regulars" (or the Svets or JJs)? My opinion of the Svets is like Ckorody's, and I do like EH EL34 regulars. S... | |
| iTunes idiot needs some help Heh heh. Hwy wrote Cliff Notes. I wrote Dummies. | |
| iTunes idiot needs some help "There must be a way to grab the WAV files off my hard drive and using iTunes compress the files, store the compressed music in a directory on the drive, and then load my iPod with the compressed files."Jeff, Heres one way. Open up iTunes so you... | |
| Distortion from Airport Express setup? Don't know if the original poster is still trying to solve his problem, but I should make a correction to my message. I said, "If the answer is yes to these diagnostic questions, then you may be experiencing the same problem that I did". I should ... | |
| Distortion from Airport Express setup? I had an issue like this--same kind of distortion--that turned out to be very strange and perpexing once I explored it. I'm still not sure what the root of the problem was, but it must have had something to do with some corruption in some arcane a... | |
| Rocky return to vinyl Ditto to Rob's comments. I have many older rock/pop LPs that just aren't recorded very well. Many of those have a rolled-off, congested sound, like you describe. OTOH, some of my older LPs sound very good. So, do make sure you try a variety of LPs... | |
| reactions to SMILE? To offer a dissent, I'm still not very keen on it. It's very impressive in parts, but much of it comes across as a series of vignettes, or sometimes even novelty pieces. I'm finding too much artifice and not enough flow, which makes it very differ... | |
| Apple Lossless Wirelessly Have used with Mac and PC. You could try this roundabout way. Use Airport Admin Utility to do the setup, if Airport Express Assistant is not doing the job for you. Connect the Airport Express by ethernet cable to your DSL or cable modem or router ... |